Auscultation
Origin
From Latin a listening, a heeding
Full definition of auscultation
Noun
auscultation
(countable and uncountable; plural auscultations)- (medicine) Diagnosis of disorders by listening to the sounds of the internal organs, usually using a stethoscope.
- 1973, David Hendin, Death as a Fact of Life, George J. McLeod, (1973), p. 22The movement was also responsible for the recognition of several new signs of death such as fixed, dilated pupils and auscultation of the heart.